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'A Streetcar Named Desire' to Arrive at Augustana Feb. 24

Augustana’s theatre season continues with performances of Tennessee Williams’ acclaimed play, A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Dan Workman.

Performances will be held at Augustana’s Edith Mortenson Center Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24 - 26 and at 7:30 p.m. March 3 - 5.

Widely considered a landmark play, Streetcar deals with the culture clash between two iconic characters: Blanche DuBois, a fading relic of the Old South, and Stanley Kowalski, a rising member of the industrial, urban working class.

Having lost her teaching job and the family plantation home, Blanche sets off for New Orleans to stay with her sister, Stella, who is married to the brutish Stanley Kowalski. While she tries hard to hang on to her poise and culture, Blanche’s destructive tendencies – think delusions of grandeur and alcoholism – push their way to the surface.

After Stanley exposes Blanche’s faults to her would-be suitor, Blanche finds herself caught between fantasy and reality as she tries to manage the industrial culture of the city while fending off Stanley.

Streetcar won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948, and has been described as “eye-opening,” “powerful” and “unlike any other.”